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Quotes About Religious freedom

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
~ Shirin Ebadi
The wearing of skullcaps in public was criminalised, as were other items defined as habitually Jewish. But Hasidic Jews responded by adopting the costume of the Polish-Russian merchant; the black fox-fur shtreimel hat worn over the yarmulka, the long belted black coat and white stockings that merchants wore in St Petersburg. This is what they still wear in Jerusalem and elsewhere, imagined as distinctively Jewish dress, which frozen over the generations it has duly become.
~ Simon Schama
John Adams when he said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
~ Ben Carson
si Dios no existe, todo nos está permitido».
~ Ben Carson M.D.
With a Senate nominee voicing an opinion on "legitimate rape," the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, called on Akin to withdraw from the race and blocked any official party support for him. But four years later, Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims' entering the United States, a clearly unconstitutional edict violating the Constitution's Article VI clause against a religious test, and the Republican Party leadership did nothing.
~ Stuart Stevens
He said he was raising his kids to believe in the will not the rules and that we would go to the Unitarian Church.
~ Susan Barnes
Social Democrats will always protest against persecution of Catholicism or Protestantism; they will always defend the right of nations to profess any religion they please; but at the same time, on the basis of a correct understanding of the interests of the proletariat, they will carry on agitation against Catholicism, Protestantism and the religion of the Orthodox Church in order to achieve the triumph of the socialist world outlook.
~ Joseph Stalin
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.
~ Joseph Story
Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.' " "Is
~ Joshua Ferris
And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
In a world without religious freedom, civil rights, or free speech—the colonial world of the 1630s that was the seed of the modern United States—Anne Hutchinson was an American visionary, pioneer, and explorer who epitomized the religious freedom and tolerance that are essential to the nation's character.
~ Eve LaPlante
Restrict high capacity magazines and clips and we say "over my dead body." Restrict the Body of Christ and we say little to nothing.
~ Everett Piper
We seem to be ready to go to war at the loss of our right to own a gun but yet we sit back quietly at the loss of our right to worship our God as we see fit.
~ Everett Piper
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
~ Billy Graham
While Christians in America have worshipped without the fear or threat of physical abuse for their beliefs, thousands of their brothers in Christ throughout the world have been tortured and martyred for confessing the name of Christ.
~ Billy Graham
Thank God for whatever measure of religious freedom you enjoy—and pray today for those suffering for their faith in Christ.
~ Billy Graham
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
~ Bob McDonnell
We should welcome all men of every shade of religious opinion, as among the best means of checking the arrogance and intolerance which are the almost inevitable concomitants of general conformity. Liberty always flourishes best amid the clash and competition of rival religious creeds.
~ Booker T. Washington
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
~ Willie Nelson
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
~ John Catsimatidis
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
~ Mitt Romney
Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.
~ Charles T. Canady
Be intelligent. Be responsible. The religious freedom practiced today is unparalleled. You must practice it yourself if you want others to practice it with respect to your own beliefs. The richness of diversity is a wealth we all share.
~ Stan Koehler
Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the truth, we must allow others to choose their own beliefs. You can't force anyone to believe something they don't, anyway.
~ Michael Monroe